The signing of two documents concluded yesterday the official visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to China, where he met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing. The first document, as Lavrov told reporters yesterday, is an agreement on the construction of a bridge between the Chinese coast of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Chita region of Russia. The second document is about the creation of a working group to resolve migration issues.

The Russians entered into their first agreements at the Berlin Air Show The traditional International Aerospace Exhibition and Conference ILA-2006 began yesterday in Berlin unconventionally - for the first time, the Chancellor did not come to the opening of the air show, or rather, did not come. The presence of Economics Minister Michael Gloss in place of Angela Merkel reduced the solemnity, but did not in any way affect the business mood of the aircraft manufacturers.

In Moscow there is a non-profit organization “Family Planning and Sex Education for Youth and Adolescents”. I met with the leading specialist of the center, obstetrician-gynecologist and dermatovenerologist, member of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, member of the Russian Association of Gynecologists-Endocrinologists Boris LORDKIPANIDZE. —You give lectures to teenagers. What interests them most? -- One of the frequently asked questions is when can you start having sex.

Marathon Oil sold Russian oil and gas assets The American company Marathon Oil, which operates around the world, has decided to part with its Russian assets. Yesterday it announced that it was selling all nine fields it owned in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to LUKOIL. By coincidence, Marathon Oil decided to leave the Russian oil industry, which is attracting close interest from the world’s largest oil companies, after it was inspected by Rosprirodnadzor and Rostechnadzor.

The transition from a resource-based economy to an innovative one will be accompanied by significant losses for the treasury Ultra-high energy prices in recent years, mainly for oil and gas, saved Russia from a budget deficit, made it possible to increase pensions, salaries, and, more recently, to implement national projects and think about real assistance to mothers and children.

The rules for spending the investment fund have been determined The investment fund has not yet begun its work; even the regulatory framework for its existence was finally agreed upon by the “core” departments - the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance - only yesterday. However, the government is already convinced of its beneficial effect on economic growth. Moreover, officials are already ready to increase government injections in this way.

Immigrants await legalization of enhanced regime US President George W. Bush took up the issue of immigration. Addressing his fellow Americans Monday evening, he laid out his vision of the role of illegal immigrants in America today. They number from 11 to 14 million people, three quarters of them are from Latin America. Illegal immigrants mostly enter the United States through the border with Mexico and settle in California, Texas and Florida.

The announcement of the verdict in the case of the tragedy in Beslan has begun in Vladikavkaz The guilt of the Chechen militant Nurpashi Kulaev in the seizure of a school in Beslan and the death of hundreds of people has been fully proven. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia began announcing the verdict in the case of the terrible tragedy of September 2004.

Following a cold front, arctic air spread to the European territory of Russia. In the next 24 hours, the weather in most of the European territory will depend on the activity of the cyclone, which formed on the wave of an atmospheric front stretching from west to east. In the northwest on Wednesday, against the background of increased atmospheric pressure, there will be no precipitation, the temperature in the morning will drop to -3...+2оС, in the afternoon +10...+15оС.

A school plan was found among militants killed in Dagestan The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Adilgirey Magomedtagirov, yesterday reported on the prevention of a major terrorist attack that was planned to be carried out on the territory of the republic by militants from the gang of Rasul Makasharipov, the murdered leader of the Dagestan underground.

America rewards Libya for 'excellent cooperation' Washington has fully restored diplomatic relations with Tripoli, severed in 1980. The US is also removing Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, which the North African country was placed on in 1979.

They are again trying to make one out of two Duma factions with the same name The Rodina faction in the Duma, which split into two with scandal a year ago, may be on the verge of new transformations. Deputies from both factions - Rodina (People's Patriotic Union) and Rodina (People's Will - SEPR) - are dissatisfied with the current situation and believe that it is necessary to unite back. And at the same time, resolve the issue of joint actions in the upcoming parliamentary elections of 2007.

Watch from May 18 on Moscow screens “The Da Vinci Code” (USA-France, 2006, Ron Howard). The opening film of the current Cannes Film Festival is simultaneously released almost all over the world. An imminent adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, a strange murder in the Louvre in Paris unwinds the spring of a secret conspiracy involving the highest hierarchs of the Catholic Church, members of secret societies, specialists in secret symbols and Grail hunters.

The regions took Sergei Mironov at his word Today, deputies of the State Duma of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug must decide whether or not to recall their representative in the Federation Council. The speaker of the upper house, Sergei Mironov, accused Boris Gutin, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Northern Affairs and Small Peoples, who represents Yamal in the Senate, of poor performance. Mr.

The Tretyakov Gallery introduced the program of its holiday On May 22 (10th - old style), 1856, merchant Pavel Tretyakov bought a painting by artist V.G. Khudyakov “Skirmish with Finnish smugglers.” This was the first painting of the collection. The date May 22 is the founding day of the Tretyakov Gallery. On the eve of the 150th anniversary, the gallery management presented a program of festive events. The events dedicated to old art are most convincing.